A U.S. release of an award-winning first novel finds a disabled ex-soldier and a lawyer with tuberculosis combing the underworld of 18th-century Stockholm to unmask a ruthless murderer before a young workhouse laborer becomes a next victim. 100,000 first printing.

Assisting Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Lovejoy when a dissolute young gentleman is brutally murdered, Sebastian St. Cyr scrambles to find the killer to exonerate his wrongly implicated niece. By the author of Why Kill the Innocent

When a local executioner is found murdered by the same method he used to end criminal lives, photographer Sarah Bain and her friends follow leads to a notorious killer of infants. By the award-winning author of A Mortal Likeness

What it's about: In 1859, the whaling vessel Volunteer sets sail for the Arctic under the command of the corrupt Captain Brownlee.

Featuring: a motley crew that includes Patrick Sumner, a former army surgeon with a laudanum habit and a trunk full of secrets, and Henry Drax, an alcoholic harpooner with a thirst for brutal violence.

Is it for you? If you like fast-paced, violent sea stories that leave you wondering who (if anyone) will survive, check out The North Water.